"America is great because we get people from all over the world. To summarize America, I will say, 'It's freedom: Freedom to do what you want to do and be what you want to be.' Family is an important value for the American people. How you grow up and the values you learn are what you carry through your life and it helps you." Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County
Sheriff for eighteen years. Phoenix, Arizona.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) more than 40 percent of immigrants to the U.S. come across the Arizona border.

In 2010, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
deported 91.000 individuals from Arizona, returning them to their countries of origin.

From October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 253 people, seeking a new life in the U.S., died in the desert of Arizona state.

"My girlfriends are taking their kids to therapy, because if the parents are twenty minutes late, their children call and ask: 'Are you okay? Where are you? What's happened?' At this moment here, you are punished by the color of your skin and the language you speak. We are living with pain, anguish, stress. When parents go to work, their children don't know if they will be back." Alex is an undocumented immigrant and mother of two, living with her family, in Tucson, Arizona. She works as an aid to older women and volunteers at Coalicion de Derechos Humanos to inform migrants on their rights.